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NEXTDC M3 Melbourne

NEXTDC · Melbourne

NEXTDC M3 Melbourne facility
NEXTDC · Source
IT live
60 MW
Free to lease
123 MW
$ / kW·mo
$121
White space
188k ft²

Inventory

0% occupied

Power

60 MWlive

123 MW to lease · 0 MW in use

White space

188k ft²total

385k ft² free · occupied

17k m² · 36k m² free

Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.

Power

IT live60 MW
Free to lease123 MW
Utility feed281 MW
Campus / planned225 MW

About 221 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$121/kW·mo

13.8¢ industrial · 16.6¢ after PUE 1.20

Per MW·year
$1.5M
This site · 60 MW
$87M/yr
30 kW rack
$3,627/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

4.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $67M/yr less.

Victoria NEM · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
N+1
Opened
2023
Renewable match
70%
Rack density
30 kW
PUE
1.201.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
Victorian grid.

Cooling

Plant

Hybrid

Liquid

Deployed

Rack density

30 kW

H100-eq

WUE

2.40 L/kWh

fleet avg · 2026 · 1.3M m³/yr at 60 MW

0 dry2.50 evaporative

Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. NEXTDC FY26 sustainability report.

High-density AI colo, liquid-ready, targeting 225 MW by 2027.

Network carriers

5

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

4

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, VIC

-37.825°, 144.940° · Oceania

Tenants / users

Hyperscale, AI

Notes

M3 is NEXTDC's density step-change in Melbourne.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.